A review by cheesepuppy
Boyfriends with Girlfriends by Alex Sanchez

Did not finish book. Stopped at 11%.
24 pages in, this book is rough and not in a good way. I’m probably not going to finish this and I wish I thought it was worth giving to someone else. 

It’s mostly dialogue. Sometimes it doesn’t even say who is talking. It flips between 4 characters and it really doesn’t tell you the perspective changed. On top of that, biphobia and lots of stereotypes.

The characters all talk like they’re reading a script for a play. There’s no feeling, personality, or vernacular in the dialogue. It feels more like a choppy school skit to talk about LGBT things.

A little bit in defense of the book, it was published in 2011. Maybe things have changed to much for me to feel good reading all these blatant gross stereotypes and fetishizing cultures

Also, there are things that contextually don’t make sense. There is a sentence, on page 20, that’s says
”he bent over again to kiss her again.” and yet neither of these things had been mentioned before.
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